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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by pjc50 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @07:39AM (#18138953)
A photo of such a motherboard with a big arrow pointed at the additional chip would be a useful addition to this discussion.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by baybal2 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:17AM (#18139177)
Supermicro 6128 aka x10 series microblade. Those were very popular among Chinese DC operators during Broadwel era.

https://www.itcreations.com/dist/landing/i/MBI-6128R-T2/MBI-...

Left of the sata connector. An empty space with 8 pads for an smt eeprom or flash. It is occupied by the thingy on bugged boards.

Right below is the Aspeed chip - the BMC

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by voidlogic on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:42AM (#18140908)
Is there a list of known compromised Supermicro SKUs?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by Robotbeat on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:23AM (#18147875)
There really, really needs to be. If this story is real and things have been known compromised since 2015, it’s unacceptable that this information isn’t shared more widely. The “we’re going to follow them” idea doesn’t hold water over 3 years, countless small vendors using Supermicro and not being well-connected enough to know (like Apple or Amazon) about it.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by baybal2 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:19PM (#18141269)
No
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